Can Debt Be a Means or Sign of Blessing?
by Mogamahttp://mogama.info
T he word “bless”, “blessed” or “blessing” is one of those loaded words with many meanings. Just look up “blessing” in a dictionary, and you will see just how full of meaning the term is. But one thing is clear: “Blessing” usually has a positive meaning from the one giving the blessing to the one hearing or receiving the blessing.
The Free Dictionary defines blessing as “a happy event or state of affairs”. From the evidence in Western societies, debt hardly qualifies as a happy situation. Debt continues to bring miseries to the lives of borrowers. In its tracks, debt continues to leave strained relationships, ruined marriages, and even crashed economies, like the 2009 global market meltdown caused by too many baseless home loans.
Debt may bring a form of happiness for the moment as the borrower is happy about that car he has just financed. But the borrower will soon feel the sour aftertaste of making monthly payments for five years or longer. The borrower lives with the awareness that if he/she cannot make those payments the car will be repossessed, taken away by the lender.
Another word for “blessing” is the word “grace”, which means “favor”, a free gift. A blessing is a gift from God. But can we really say that debt is a gift from Heaven? Hardly. Debt is not a favor. Borrowing results in an obligation. Debt obligates the borrower to pay back what is borrowed, loose possession of the borrowed property, or have the borrower's reputation soiled (as in a bad credit record).
Let's close this blog with the words of Moses, the founder of Israel, who said in Deuteronomy 15:6 , “ For the LORD your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none ...”
Again in Deuteronomy 28:12 , Moses said, “ The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none . ”
So what is the economic sign of God's blessing? That the blessed person has a surplus. When God blesses us economically, we have more than enough. This abundance puts us in position to become lenders, who are not as blessed. Thus, the blessing is to have borrowers rather than become borrowers .
Since the ability to lend is a blessing, then what may we call the capacity to borrow? Is that not the opposite of a blessing? A kind of curse , may be? Indeed as debt freedom is a sign of blessing, indebtedness can be a sign of an economic curse.
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